NASA on Monday successfully launched a new infrared telescope into space to scan the universe for undiscovered asteroids and comets that could threaten Earth. Named the Wide-field Infrared Survey ...
NASA announced April 17 it has pulled a spacewalk dedicated to heat shield repair techniques from the schedule of its next space shuttle flight to make way for additional inspections to be conducted ...
NASA has a new X-ray eye in the sky. The U.S. space agency's latest X-ray telescope was boosted into orbit Wednesday to begin a two-year mission to search for black holes and other hard-to-see ...
NASA's asteroid monitoring system has been upgraded, and can now scan the entire night sky in its mission to detect and warn of incoming space rocks. Based at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for ...
LOS ANGELES (XINHUA) - Nasa's upcoming SPHEREx mission will be able to scan the entire sky every six months and create a map of the cosmos unlike any before, according to a plan the agency unveiled on ...
NASA has launched a satellite that will study the outermost reaches of our solar system in unprecedented detail. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, satellite will spend 45 days in a ...